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Staking

Solana staking

What delegating actually paid, recovered from the rewards the chain issued rather than modelled from an inflation rate. Solana is the one chain measured here where that is possible: it publishes what every validator was paid, every epoch.

What the chain is paying

epoch 1020 · 1 epoch observed

Gross rate, measured

4.71%

Median of every payment the chain made

Gross rate, protocol

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Needs total supply, which this endpoint will not serve

Total staked

433.44MSOL

Share of supply unavailable

Cluster slots skipped

0.06%

Assigned slots that produced no block

The two gross rates are computed from inputs that share nothing. One is the median of every payment the chain actually made; the other is inflation multiplied by supply and divided by total stake. They agree, and that agreement is what makes either publishable — a single unexplained number would be worth no more here than it is anywhere else.

Rates are annualised at 182.6 epochs a year, from Solana’s 400 ms target slot time. No full epoch has been observed end to end yet; once one has, the measured length replaces the target. Real epochs run slightly longer, so this figure is if anything a little generous.

How the set is actually paid

751 validators

A single network rate says almost nothing about what a delegation pays, because the set it averages over is not shaped like a bell. These are the three distributions the headline hides.

What a delegation earns

Net annual return after commission, in whole per cent. The lowest column holds two different things — validators that pay a little, and validators that take the whole reward — so it is labelled rather than coloured.

01234

net APR, %

What validators charge

Commission is bimodal, not spread: most validators sit at one end or the other, so the average commission describes almost nobody.

01–56–91011–5051–99100

commission, %

Where the stake sits

Cumulative share of stake against validator count. Delegating to a validator already near the top of this curve is what makes it steeper.

a third0%50%100%110100Solana validators: the top 1 hold 3.9%Solana validators: the top 5 hold 15.2%Solana validators: the top 10 hold 23.9%Solana validators: the top 20 hold 34.6%Solana validators: the top 50 hold 54.2%Solana validators: the top 100 hold 71.4%Solana validators: the top 250 hold 87.9%Solana validators: the top 500 hold 97.2%Solana validators: the top 751 hold 100.0%

validators, cumulative

Every validator

6-epoch window

Ordered by what a delegation would have earned, after commission. A validator’s advertised rate is not what it pays: the two things that separate them are the commission they take and the share of their assigned slots they actually produce.

How to read a rate

  • Measured— Recovered from a payment the chain made to this validator
  • Derived— The cohort's measured rate with this validator's commission and block production applied
  • Pays nothing— Commission of 100%: every reward is taken before the delegator sees it

401–450 of 751 validators

Solana validators by measured net annual return
#ValidatorNet APRCommissionStakeScoreStatus
401DEU4agzdUC…r823Uu4.71%derived0%44K100.0Excellent
402DeXsDvvZzK…jzZB8t4.38%5%204K71.3Degraded
403Df16xM2XWz…yS4r654.47%5%1.53M79.3Good
404DF1owXYZ1f…tqrpwd4.47%5%389K79.4Good
405DgfSg748HC…5DpQFB4.71%derived0%64K—Insufficient data
406DidkDYa64D…QGihi54.64%5%366K94.1Excellent
407DiFeTctQSa…TELJLE4.47%5%16K79.5Good
408Diman2GphW…diDZau4.71%derived0%339K100.0Excellent
409DiveRaPKvi…GNLGvL4.71%derived5%57K0.0Poor
410dmMwc4RazL…aiun8S4.46%5%115K78.5Good
411DnQBmTJyLb…VRGnG44.42%5%227K75.3Good
412DNVZMSqeRH…23eWkf4.66%1%1.92M95.9Excellent
413DP9iBgK9c7…zQnjmg4.31%5%142K65.1Degraded
414DP9SwUE9Wi…pt8GgZ4.56%3%267K87.6Good
415DrifTrN923…mZxatz4.71%derived0%2.81M99.1Excellent
416DRpbCBMxVn…km21hy4.71%derived0%12.32M92.9Excellent
417DSRVdh9PQa…ctRY4E4.56%derived3%748—Insufficient data
418dst2u7mXMy…DKE9xH4.46%5%96K78.6Good
419DUND26mEDf…EWzYw4—100%2.50M0.0Poor
420DupN8puwoP…axyUG44.71%derived5%80K100.0Excellent
421DViARWAWKk…wgVUKX4.71%derived0%224K100.0Excellent
422dxa6QFqLcB…2h8inH4.46%5%190K78.2Good
423dzBhD4wiky…smRX8Y4.47%5%18K79.4Good
424DZKTNGR3r4…FwRyqm4.71%derived100%49—delinquent
425E1r4Psq84t…5RdxHL4.71%derived0%11.22M93.2Excellent
426E3mDbFMr8y…c54h3F4.48%5%870K80.5Good
427E4xNK4UwGn…3wEdGZ4.47%derived5%6K—delinquent
428E5UXkzUxqE…wgRGDT4.71%derived0%551K100.0Excellent
429E99w1XfS4U…LTspSV4.47%derived5%90K79.4Good
430E9hD3ikumJ…E5uhmo4.46%5%125K78.5Good
431EATpCzQNs8…mcsY7f4.46%5%96K78.8Good
432EAW9vxqogv…854VTc4.46%5%120K78.6Good
433EBk678aQvc…c89RSV4.44%5%78K76.5Good
434ECNnK4VjcK…Mazmxi4.71%derived5%1—delinquent
435ECZx4Dfyn2…bWgrdU4.71%derived0%209K100.0Excellent
436Ed9WjPnZfA…Fva2Zv4.71%derived0%207K100.0Excellent
437EdFUcP2f6j…Zrsk6w4.71%derived0%626K100.0Excellent
438EdGevanA2M…EyE9hy4.71%derived0%211K100.0Excellent
439Ee8dX3qtwr…iw23W94.71%derived0%141K100.0Excellent
440EF3goezr7J…1EsaM64.47%derived5%5K—delinquent
441EfPYQ4BUMi…gWHuyp4.33%8%325K67.1Degraded
442EJsJx7Smt3…5tkJk84.24%derived10%520K—Insufficient data
443EKgSCR3ahd…Kjqbz72.98%5%21K58.8Degraded
444EkvdKhULbM…mi6C1f0.00%100%4.11M0.0Poor
445EN5F2BU5ju…yMrvnW4.71%derived0%116K100.0Excellent
446EPFZFVrXuv…Cxpkcy4.71%derived0%114K100.0Excellent
447EQhTjikb1L…peM44W4.71%derived0%279K100.0Excellent
448ETcW7iuVra…MPmXTc4.71%derived0%249K100.0Excellent
449Eu6FQvMfaV…MppVwa4.71%derived0%242—Insufficient data
450EUcJwf7jXs…62XctB0.00%100%1.64M0.0Poor
Take it awayCSV— Solana staking yieldsJSON— Solana staking yieldsevery validator, not only the filtered view

Rates are annualised from completed epochs. A measured rate is recovered from the payment the chain made to the validator's vote account; a derived rate is the cohort's own measured gross rate with this validator's commission and block production applied, used where no payment can be inverted — at zero commission there is nothing to invert.

How a rate is arrived at

Measured

The chain reports what it paid a validator’s vote account, which is that validator’s commission on its delegators’ rewards — not the rewards themselves. Those are paid straight into individual stake accounts and are not reported anywhere.

So the commission is divided back out. A validator charging 7% that was paid 351 SOL earned its delegators 351 ÷ 0.07 × 0.93 between them.

Derived, and why it is needed

Dividing by zero recovers nothing, and roughly half of Solana’s validators charge no commission at all — so for them there is no payment to invert. The same applies where a validator’s stake has changed so much since it was paid that the two figures no longer describe the same moment.

Those rows use the rate the rest of the cohort was measurably paid, with this validator’s own commission and block production applied — and they say so, on every row.

Neither figure includes MEV. Jito tips are distributed outside the protocol’s own reward mechanism and are not visible in what the chain reports here, so a validator running Jito may pay more than this page shows. It is not estimated here. Full methodology